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	✔ Cʀᴏssᴏᴠᴇʀs/AU ✔ Aᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ✔ Pʀᴏsᴇ	✔ Pɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ✔ Oᴛʜᴇʀᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ✔ Sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀs	♥ F/M, F/F ⏰ Cᴀɴᴏɴ Pʀᴇꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇs

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[withasouvenir]

[ thea sees it, crease forming between her eyes, but she smooths it out. she isn't here to pump mia for information, she is here to help. maybe helping means talking about mia's late grandmother.

thea strides over to the command center, sinking into a chair and rooting around underneath where she knows rene hides mini cans of sprite so she can crack one open, giving herself a minute to think about how to explain the complexity of moira dearden queen. "oh she was a mass murderer!" doesn't seem like it'll fly without context. ]

She was complicated. She loved us, so much. She knew Ollie was the Hood -- that's what he called himself -- way before he told her. I love your dad dearly, but my brother is a moron.

[ she takes a sip of the soda. ] When dad and Ollie disappeared she sort of... It broke her, she made some bad choices. Once Ollie came back it was too late.

[ the undertaking was underway already. ]

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Kinda becomes a pattern with the people in his life, I guess.

[Oh is that still some stray bitterness about her mother lying to her her entire life? Good to know that's not totally gone. And now her mom is just gone so there's that.

(Only she's not gone. She's not even that far away, with baby her, just going about her life and getting ready to lie to her again. It's fine. That doesn't bother her at all.]

Dad disappears and people make bad choices.

[withasouvenir]

It's all that repressed trauma.

[ okay that's a little flippant, but thea can't help it. she tends to default to brushing it all aside, especially when it comes to her mother. it's fine, she doesn't have abandonment issues, it's fine, she doesn't have parent issues because they're all murderers and TWO OF THEM DIED FOR HER.

it's fine. ]

So is that it? Oliver vanished again?

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Dad died.

[She swallows hard, before running a hand through her hair. She doesn't want to have to say this, but knowing that her dad already knows, maybe Thea already knows too.]

A couple months from now, actually. If my math is right.

[withasouvenir]

Fuck.

[ thea doesn't sugarcoat it. it makes sense though. ollie might drop off the universe when it comes to her, but mia and william are something oliver isn't going to leave lightly. it turns out he doesn't leave them lightly at all, he dies.

it's cute mia thinks thea is told anything. ]

That would do it.

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[There's a beat as Mia realizes that Oliver hasn't told Thea anything and she rolls her eyes.]

Why am I not surprised he hasn't told you anything?